Elsa Barker Quotes

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I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

Elsa Barker

Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.

Elsa Barker

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

Elsa Barker

Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

Elsa Barker

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

Elsa Barker

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

Elsa Barker

There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.

Elsa Barker

Elsa Barker

Elsa Barker

Born: 1869

Died: 1954 (aged 85)

Bio: Elsa Barker was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet.

Known for:

Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914)
Last letters from the living dead man (1919)
War Letters From The Living Dead Man (1915)
Letters from the Light

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